Chapter 5: Big Guys Love This

[nanocerancowboy]

[ACTION - A (In and Around Stone Street, Morning, OPEN TO ALL)]

[Gat's been really wary of all the strange activity and seemingly-alien ships that have heralded most of the weird-yet not entirely life threatening events that have happened throughout the week. While that cherry blob-like mess and the pod people didn't seem to affect him at all,

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[duck_duck_laser]

[Let us say, for comedy's sake, that Dakki already went on her morning run before Gat and Chen got HUGE.

Let us also say, for comedy's sake, that Gat forgot his lunch because he was huge! Thus, Dakki has strolled on down to the firehouse to bring it to him. Yes, she's aware that there are... big... everythings all over town, but it hadn't occurred to her that Gat would be one.

Until she's about a block away and can see his head poking up from between the buildings.]

Uh...

[By the time she's actually AT the firehouse, she's grinning sheepishly, holding that lunch box up.]

I... don't think this is going to cut it, today. Do you?

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat looks down ... all the way down to see Dakki standing there with the lunch box. Oh jeez, he knew he forgot something in all this confusion. Not like it would do him any good now!]

No, I reckon it wouldn't, heh.

[Carefully, Gat tries to stoop to one knee so that he can talk to Dakki with a slightly less drastic difference in eye level. It takes him a couple of seconds to do so, given there's so much stuff lying around and he could easily kick a hole into the fire house or knock the engine over.]

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[Dakki chuckles, waiting patiently for Gat to kneel. This was just awkward, not deadly. And not insulting like things had been earlier in the week.]

What's it like, being that big?

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat considers his surroundings and the relative size of everything for a moment before answering.]

I ain't enjoyin' it all that much. Everything seems a whole lot more fragile, bein' this tall.

It's th' strangest thing, though ... I don't feel much different. It's almost like th' world was scaled down to me rather than gettin' any bigger. I reckon it shouldn't be this easy to scale a fella up several times his usual height.

[duck_duck_laser]

This town really wasn't designed for anything so large to be moving in it, true...

[She makes a curious sound, nodding quickly.] No, no, things need to be designed for that sort of size. I'd say the simulation just scaled you up a bit, and never mind the physics involved.

...I mean... I think I saw a giant frog on the way over...

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat nods.]

At th' least I reckon it shouldn't be so easy for me to move around, th' way I'm built. But th' real problem, I suspect, would be my circulatory system. I ain't sure it could hold up normally.

[duck_duck_laser]

I was going to theorize that your skeletal system would be more of a problem. Something humanoid-sized can only get so big before that kind of structure starts to fail.

[She passes a hand over her face with a sigh.]

It doesn't make any sense, and yet... here you are.

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat shrugs.]

As sadistic as th' folks runnin' this town are, I'm glad they didn't have th' presence of mind to do that. This ... would've been a lot more painful.

[He glances up again. Even kneeling down, he can still see over the rooftops of nearby buildings, and can spot other giant people walking around.]

Sure does seem like a lotta folks got "scaled up" today, too. Didja see Chen earlier?

[duck_duck_laser]

I think they're just playing with us, this time.

[When Gat looks up, she looks up as well. Although she can't see nearly as much.]

Oh, yes. Chen is doing alright. I think there are enough scaled-up people for you to form a club. Or a support group. Or something.

[nanocerancowboy]

[Overgrown People Anonymous! Gat laughs a little at that.]

I reckon if too many of us big folk got in th' same place, we'd wind up causin' a sinkhole.

[He's saying that in a joking manner, although it's not something he'd want to try and test.]

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[There's a thoughtful look on Dakki's face, all of a sudden. She's wondering just what would happen if all the huge people stood in generally the same spot.

Thoughts like that are not very nice and are best avoided, so she stops.]

Yes, yes, so it's a good thing everyone seems spread out...

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat looks around a bit.]

Speakin' of which, do ya know what happened to Aurica? I don't think I've seen her all day.

[Incredible Shrinking Reyvateil go!]

[duck_duck_laser]

[Dakki sighs, and gives the back of her neck a rub.]

Aurica's day was spent shrinking.... Last I saw, she was at home. I do hope she's not outside wandering around. Being too big may be irritating, but being too small is just plain hazardous.

[nanocerancowboy]

[The way Gat's posture changes, it seems like he's pretty disturbed.]

... Yeah. I hope I haven't, uh-stepped on her. Or any other folks that got shrunk, assumin' Aurica ain't th' only one.

[duck_duck_laser]

I'm sure she's fine.

....as for anyone else... [Oh great, now she's feeling and looking disturbed, too.] Let's... be thankful that they'll be back tomorrow....

[nanocerancowboy]

[Gat nods after a little hesitation.]

Bad enough that I'm havin' a hard time not steppin' on normal sized folks; even with my usual optical sensors I ain't seen any shrunken people runnin' around.

I reckon it'd be like tryin' to watch out for bugs all th' time.